The Research Data Alliance (RDA) builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data. The RDA vision is researchers and innovators openly sharing data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society.

The World Data System (WDS) is an Interdisciplinary Body of the International Council for Science (ICSU) whose goals are to Enable universal and equitable access to quality-assured scientific data, data services, products and information; ensure long term data stewardship; foster compliance to agreed-upon data standards and conventions; provide mechanisms to facilitate and improve access to data and data products.